Ch. 10 Test

How did the book Uncle Tom's cabin affect American society in the 1850s?

• It convinced many northerners that enslaved people were property
• It resulted in the passage of laws protecting slaves from oners who beat them
• It caused some slaveholders to allow slave to buy their freedom
• It convinced many northerners that slavery would ruin the nation

Which of the following in true of both the North and the South in the mid-1800s?

• Both regions cherished their democratic traditions
• Both regions had strong communications systems
• Cotton was the most important cash crop in both regions
• Both regions had about the same amount of industrial production

What did Senator Douglas propose in the Kansas-Nebraska Act>

• to make Kansas and Nebraskas slave states
• to uphold the Missouri Compromise
• to rely on popular sovereignty to decide if slavery should be legal in the territories
• to allow slavery in Nebraska but not Kansas

The territory the U.S. gained after the Mexican American War

• helped to resolve tensions between the North and South
• was added to the union as free states in North and slave states in South
• contributed to worsening relations between the North and South
• did not affect the slavery issue

Many southern whites criticized norther business owners for

• not caring about their workers
• assuming personal responsibility for workers
• trying to control workers' lives
• refusing to hire african american workers

Which of the following did the Supreme Court uphold in the Dred Scott decision?

• The slave trade should be abolished in Washington, D.C.
• The federal government should protect the slaveholder, not the slave
• Slavery was unconstitutional
• Slaveholders could not take slaves into free states or territories

During his 1858 senatorial election debates with Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln argued that

• slavery was a moral issue
• whites and African Americans should have social and political equality
• slavery should be prohibited in the South
• southern states should secede

What was the greatest impact of John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry?

• Northerners and southerners reached a temporary "cease-fire"
• The raid deepened the division between North and South
• The raid caused the decline of the Whig party
• The federal government agreed to let state governments decide all slavery issues

The Kansas-Nebraska bill gave Kansas voters the right to

• choose or reject slavery
• organize Emigrant Aid societies
• give women the vote
• establish two capitals

"Bleeding Kansas" earned its name from clashes over

• the Dred Scott decision
• religious differences
• slavery
• land ownership